Daughter-in-law Strikes Harder

The entire state of Dalton had become restless and so sad, ever since Aria’s disappearance from the house and her confirmed traveling. There was no way that he could be himself knowing that his wife was suffering that much, when he had ignored her so badly all those years. He could never forgive himself.

He had told every of his family members to return to their house immediately, which included his mother, sisters, and even most of their maids. Every room that was initially occupied in the house was locked, and only a few maids, gardeners, butlers, and control room operators were left.

Many things about Dalton became empty after the second day of finding out about Aria’s condition, with his connections with people across different parts of the country helping him to make underground searches and investigations.

Alex had been working tirelessly too from airport to airport, to confirm the airways that Aria took to wherever she went to. He checked seaports and every means he felt that she could have used for transportation out of the country.

Eleanor Miller was really affected by her son’s sudden declaration for all of them to leave his house, especially for the fact that they were preparing to host the most luxurious party for the Miller empire’s 60th anniversary.

Emma found it hard to stay alone in fear after they all left Dalton’s house, and had spent every of her time indoors in Ellen’s condo. Her panic attacks had come back to her again, ever since Aria confirmed her sister’s identity to her over again. They started when she was eight.

After Eva came back home after going to the States to study, she was home for nearly a year before starting another course of study. That time, Emma, who was the youngest, also stayed around at home because she had been homeschooled.

Once, she had witnessed Eva murder Ellen’s favorite cat brutally, by hitting the animal severally in the head. Another time, she had witnessed Eva drop something in the water that they were supposed to feed to their dog which died later. The animal had scratched Eva on the cheek earlier that day, because he wasn’t used to her yet.

A few things had happened too right before Emma’s eyes without their maids, that she had tried to doubt as she grew up without telling anyone. It made her so closeted to herself than ever, and made her detest the idea of staying at home which made her develop a traveling hobby.

She had once followed Eva’s movement after moving back into the mansion when she was done with school, to be sure that her elder sister was not the person she used to think she was. That day, something happened at an orchard garden far from the city that Eva visited and she entered up smashing a baton on someone’s head.

Through their conversations, Emma found out that Eva sent the guy to change the meds of someone at a particular hospital, with something she tagged helpful after offering huge bills. The patient died days later, and the guy fearfully came to challenge her.

She didn’t stop at just smashing his head, and continued to hit the guy till his face was bashed. Afterward, she set the guy on fire with her lighter and pulled off the black gloves she was wearing.

Emma, who watched your entire scene play before her, ran for her life, and almost got caught by her sharp and witty sister. She traveled out of the country that day, and returned after three months without any definite reasons to get parents. She was treating the disorder she developed after that day.

However, with Aria in the picture, she knew that there was no one other than her sister who did things like that. Her eyes had always been watching Eva, who didn’t suspect because of Emma’s innocent look and her nonchalant attitude to the affairs of the family.

She decided to use Aria as a driving force, to expose Eva before she would end up killing everyone right under their noses. By exposing clues and hints to her about whom her attempted murderer could be, she didn’t expect things to go so bad, and Aria getting her life being put into danger. Most times, she always sent a hint to Collin, if she knew Aria’s whereabouts.

But Aria, whom she underestimated due to her clumsy moves in the past, was able to outsmart and figure out that she was the masked dancer. Asking her for help right to her face when she already knew Eva’s real identity, scared her so much that she cried uncontrollably when they announced Aria’s sudden disappearance. She had been trying to message and sent emails too, but she wasn’t replying either

If things ever went wrong, she knew that Eva would kill her first. There was no way she could be okay if Eva knew all the underground research, that she had been doing for the past years against her. Eva would murder her in cold blood if she ever found out that she had given Aria every evidence, she had against her as a psychotic killer.

‘She could die very soon if Aria got caught.’

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Eleanor sat on the balcony of her house, listening to classical music and eating baked turkey wings. She was pretending to be fine, and had not given her daughters a call since they left her house three days ago after an argument.

She was trying hard to make them see how important the anniversary coming up was, but they seemed not to be interested and enthusiastic about it as she was. Especially with the fact that everything has gone awry, since Aria’s sudden disappearance and their ousting out of the mansion.Property belongs to Nôvel(D)r/ama.Org.

‘She hated it so much in her own house.’

When Eleanor read the message that popped on her phone as a notification, she scoffed so badly when she realized who the sender was. She could not imagine that he would have the guts to message her, especially when so much damage had occurred because of his daughter.

“What does this leech want?” She murmured as she opened the message.

In her normal self, she would have deleted and blocked the message immediately because he asked to meet, but the details of what followed the first sentence were enticing enough not to say no to. It pried her curiosity.

Without any further time to waste, she picked up her phone to call Ellen that she needed her to pick her up somewhere. When Ellen asked what it was about, she told her that Aria’s father was wanting to meet with a huge secret that would mess her life up.

Ellen scolded her mother to get off anything that would make Dalton disown her finally, and told her that she and Emma were miles away from town on a personal vacation.

Once again, the rebellious Mum became angry and cut off the phone again because they were not including her in anything they did.

In less than thirty minutes, she had gotten to the VIP restaurant that she had chosen to meet, and had reserved the entire evening so that no one would see her with that kind of in-law.

Hamilton arrived a few minutes after she did and took his seat before her, ready to spill everything he had in his mind before they could even serve them any food.

“So?” Eleanor started rudely, her body language portraying every displeasure that their meeting was putting upon her.

“Did you know my daughter was a twin?” He asked the mother-in-law who was still trying to act all sophisticated and high-class, which made her lose all acts of calmness as she widened her eyes in shock.

“What?!” She exclaimed.